Northwood (N.D.) Deaconess Health Center received a $25.3 million loan from the United States Department of Agriculture to help cover the costs of the hospital's $34 million expansion and renovation project, the Grand Forks Herald reported March 5.

St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., a $900 million Essentia Health project, is on track to open in the third quarter, according to the Duluth News Tribune.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Ascension Borgess Hospital is considering bringing back midwife care after the hospital cut its midwife staff from seven midwives to three in August 2022; the cut resulted in all but one midwife leaving, mlive.com reported March 3.

Mullica Hill, N.J.-based Inspira Health installed the final beam of its $71 million freestanding emergency department and inpatient behavioral health program in Woodbury.

Aurora, Ill.-based VNA Health Care kick-started its "Grow for Tomorrow" campaign that will have the health system aim to raise $5 million for expansion in the Chicago suburbs.

Nemours Children's Health, a system operating in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, has received a $78 million donation from the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation of Wilmington, Del., to fund research programs and advance clinical care for cancer, sickle cell…

The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit consumer reporting agencies from including medical debt in credit reports and require debt collectors to notify Colorado residents that medical debt will no longer be included in their credit…

The University of California Los Angeles Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative received $25.3 million to expand its "street medicine" program.

Harlowton, Mont.-based Wheatland Memorial Healthcare received a $19 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the construction of a new 38,080-square-foot critical access hospital in Harlowton.

Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Health System is set to begin construction of a $55 million replacement hospital for Union (S.C.) Medical Center in the spring of 2023, The Post and Courier reported Feb. 28.